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Why Alton Towers built roller-coaster drops underground
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Building insane drops in the British countryside requires extreme compliance. Local zoning laws dictated that the theme park could not ruin the historical skyline. As a result, engineers were forced to dig massive subterranean trenches to achieve steep coaster drops without breaking the arbitrary tree-height limit.
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